Cold War: Abel for Powers

It was a cold, cloudy morning in Berlin.
Just before 8 o'clock, five blue-grey German-made sedans pulled up at
the western end of Glienicker Brücke. the steel-trussed bridge that
spans the sleepy Havel River between the U.S. zone and Communist
territory. A group of 20 American military men and civilians got out
and waited. Five minutes later, other cars approached the bridge from
the Communist side. Their occupants emerged and stood talking. Finally,
two men detached themselves from the opposing groups and walked across
the white stripe, in the center of the bridge, that marks the boundary
between West...